Fresh Finds: Class Of 2025 – Aussie Acts To Add To Your Playlist

Christopher H James, Journalist

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Album Review: Darkstar - Foam Island
"...their dedication to a mystifying sound uniquely theirs is reassuringly familiar."
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Album Review: The Charge - Order Of The Owl
"Riffs may be The Charge's bread and butter but they've clearly been stretching their compositional boundaries"
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Album Review: Nicolas Godin - Contrepoint
"As good as Godin is in his own right, the absence of his usual Air partner Jean-BenoƮt Dunckel is felt."
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Album Review: Julia Holter - Have You In My Wilderness
"An even more confident embrace of everything a pro studio can offer."
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Album Review: Metal Allegiance - Metal Allegiance
"A vast circus of thrash-orientated metal talent."
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Album Review: Battles - La Di Da Di
"Haters will presumably have a field day with Battles' new, entirely instrumental album"
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Album Review: Helena Hauff - Discreet Desires
"A flawless vision of retro-futuristic electro."
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Album Review: Empress Of - Me
"The differences between her and other electronic pop singers may be subtle but they're priceless."
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Album Review: Dumbsaint - Panorama In Ten Pieces
"Exploring the semi-porous membrane between music and the visual arts."
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Album Review: FKA Twigs - M3LL155X
"The soundtrack to her own sumptuous yet horrifying, weird, self-directed short film."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Yob, Alzabo, The Dirac Sea
"The collective buzz within the crowd was that they'd witnessed not just a show but an event"
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Live Review: The Drones, Batpiss
"Liddiard charmed the fans as only he can"